How Do You Make A Branding Iron?
Branding irons offer you a unique way to personalize everything from steak to leather crafts to wood. When you learn to make a branding iron, you not only create your own personal imprint, but you will also be able to recreate it, as store-bought branding irons will wear out eventually and continually buying replacements adds up. Cut your wire coat hanger near the hook and straighten the wire out by hand as much as possible. Place a mark 12 inches in from one end of the coat hanger. This section you will not bend because it will become your handle. Create your pattern. Remember that the brand will follow a continuous line to recreate your design. Most designs consist of outlines of shapes (cows, outlines of states) or a person’s initials (with the letters connected as if they were written in script). A good way to understand this is to think of cookie cutters–those shapes are continuous line drawings. You will want to be able to follow your design with your wire without making any cut
